And now for something weird...

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
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They get their day in court.
http://www.scotusblog.com/2016/12/symposium-free-speech-argument-registering-disparaging-trademarks/
In Lee v. Tam, the Supreme Court will consider a request by Simon Tam, an activist and the founder of an Asian rock band, to register his band’s name, “THE SLANTS,” as a federally protected trademark. The dispute in this case centers on a relatively obscure provision of the federal trademark statute, which denies registration to marks that “may disparage” individuals, institutions, beliefs or national symbols. Tam contends that his band’s name challenges stigmatizing stereotypes, but the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office denied registration after finding THE SLANTS disparaging to people of Asian ancestry. To Tam, the result is unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination and suppression of speech – all the more harmful and arbitrary because of his record of political activism and advocacy on behalf of Asian-American groups.

Tam’s case is highly unusual. As Asian-American groups pointed out in their “friend of the court” brief, personal support for Tam shouldn’t blind us to the commercial realities of trademarks. By choosing THE SLANTS as a band name, Tam asserts he is following the progressive tradition of reappropriation, whereby members of minority groups reclaim slurs and epithets and turn the insults into badges of pride. But associating trademark protection with reappropriation is a confounding way to reconcile trademark rights and speech interests. Cultural reappropriation efforts have rarely – if ever – succeeded because activists sought trademark rights for disparaging words. Instead, the overwhelming purpose of federal trademark registration is commerce, unrelated to any high-minded expressive goal.
 

shortbus

Joined Sep 30, 2009
10,050
He only had to fool the silly researchers with magic tricks. The researchers were getting grants from the CIA 'StarGate' program.
Well to me the "remote viewing" worked. They saw they could get $20million from the government and did. That proves it worked.
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
16,330
Well to me the "remote viewing" worked. They saw they could get $20million from the government and did. That proves it worked.
Russians had their disinformation program on their deep-cover spies inside the US government and elsewhere and so did we, so I guess the money was well spent as a smoke screen for what was really happening.

The missing America hostages in Iran, etc ... were not located by Psychic remote viewing but another type of Remote Viewing/Sensing of a completely scientific manner did help. As an alternative (parallel construction) method of explaining how we really did gather intel by sensitive sources and methods our ESP/"remote viewing" disinformation program was good cover.
 

Sinus23

Joined Sep 7, 2013
250
This album is over 20 years old.

In itself it's strange.

10:27 -Straight out of Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
 
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